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Sunday 20th May, 2012

    • State spent €43m on land worth €500,000

    Independent.ie

    Lack of planning permission reveals failure of McCreevy's decentralisation THE full failure of Charlie McCreevey's decentralisation policy is today revealed as it has emerged the Irish ...

    • 'Hanging garden' joins the club

    Independent.ie

    THE sky will be the limit for Dublin's exclusive members' club Residence as it brings some gold-medal Irish hospitality to garden designer Diarmuid Gavin's towering wonder at this ...

    • State retirees jump queue for jobs

    Independent.ie

    Health Service Executive , Ireland's largest employer with more than 67,000 direct employees, and another 40,000 in funded healthcare agencies, updated its "Find a job" web pages.In ...

  • How Ciara finally learnt to fly solo

    Independent.ie

    After a marriage break-up, Ciara O'Toole found her wings piloting seaplanes over one of the world's most beautiful lakes, says Anita Guidera CIARA O'Toole didn't dream of ...

  • Ex-Tallaght Hospital chair 'disappointed' at criticisms

    Independent.ie

    Tallaght Hospital 's board said he is "disappointed" in a damning report that said patients were put at risk due to the State's failure to hold the hospital to account.The report ...

  • Councillors call for disclosure on waste deal

    Independent.ie

    ANGRY Dublin city councillors are set to take legal action to try and force the city manager to reveal the details of the controversial multi-million euro deal with Greyhound over its waste ...

  • Take one chef and one restaurateur -- and add MasterChefs in the making

    Independent.ie

    MICHELIN-starred chef Dylan McGrath and restaurateur Nick Munier will once again be joining forces as judges on MasterChef Ireland 2012 -- and are calling on people with a passion for food to take ...

  • TD says claims of hardship on €140,000 salary 'very regrettable'

    Independent.ie

    GOVERNMENT TD Aine Collins insisted yesterday that comments she allegedly made at a private meeting with constituents about finding it difficult to live on €140,000 a year were taken totally ...

  • Ex-FF politician quizzed on alleged extortion attempt

    Independent.ie

    Fianna Fail politician is being investigated by gardai for allegedly attempting to extort €100,000 from an official at a government department.The ex-politician is alleged to have threatened to ...

  • Terry Keane interview left a chill at Abbeville

    Independent.ie

    Keane revealed on The Late Late Show that she was the mistress of former Taoiseach Charles Haughey was "not a barrel of a laughs" at the then family home in Abbeville in Kinsealy, his son ...

  • Go West and sample the Greenway's attractions

    Independent.ie

    It is amazing what can be done if everyone in a community pulls together. Lucinda O'Sullivan hears a West side success story EVERY second person I meet tells me they have done, or are off to do ...

  • Breastfed until she was three, now she's a confident teen

    Independent.ie

    Baffled at the reaction to the 'Time' cover photo, Antonia Leslie found that attachment parenting worked a treat When the cover of Time magazine featured a woman breastfeeding a ...

  • RTE's Savage under attack from inquiry

    Independent.ie

    Tom Savage may be facing an unprecedented vote of no confidence by the Oireachtas Committee on Communications, which is conducting an inquiry into the role played by the Broadcasting Authority of ...

  • Brian Lenihan leaves €368,290 in his will

    Independent.ie

    Lenihan , who was suffering from pancreatic cancer, drew up a simple one-page will on the June 2, 2011, eight days before he died.He left everything to his wife Patricia Ryan, a judge of the Circuit ...

  • School pickets on polling day

    Independent.ie

    CAMPAIGNERS seeking to protect small rural schools plan to picket in the vicinity of polling booths across the country on referendum day.Organisers say "hundreds" of schools will be ...

  • Mass exodus from Red Cross board

    Independent.ie

    At least six members to step down following damning report by Dail committee At least six members of the board of the Irish Red Cross are to leave their posts this month following the publication of ...

  • Ireland can create its own Zuckerbergs

    Independent.ie

    Apple , enthuses about the prospects for start-ups in Dublin. "Irish companies instantly think global because of the size of its market," he tells the Sunday Independent."Ireland has ...

  • Reality too much to bear for 'Walter Mitty character' facing 10 years in jail

    Independent.ie

    Dunnes Stores coat from their Savida range, a beige mac and a green knee-length coat. The tanned brunette with high cheek bones fiddled with her engagement ring on the first day of the trial. She ...

  • A sea of blue flags as Leinster fans celebrate making of history

    Independent.ie

    Twickenham blended into a flickering blue wave as thousands of flags came out in support of the unprecedented victory."We are attempting to create some sort of a dynasty, something to be ...

  • Top lawyer accuses Fine Gael of 'double standards'

    Independent.ie

    Fine Gael party chiefs red-faced and angry when he accused the party of double standards in relation to political funding, singling out "at least 15 recorded donations" to the party in ...

  • Garda helicopter scrambled for school prank that went too far

    Independent.ie

    THE garda helicopter was 'scrambled' after an end-of-year 'prank' involving one of Dublin's top rugby schools got completely out of control.School pupils at St Mary's ...

  • Pat Rabbitte denies saying 'Government has no plan'

    Independent.ie

    Pat Rabbitte has said that the Government is unable to formulate a plan to deal with the economy such is the speed and ever-changing nature of the crisis.In an alarmingly frank admission, which was ...

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Is Ireland living beyond its means?

Ireland is highly developed and has experienced rapid and constant economic growth in the last few decades, with many calling the country the Celtic Tiger. But recent events in the world economy and the financial situation of Europe may mean changes are afoot for the Tiger.

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